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Everybody’s Got One
I was once asked to create a safe happy place to which I could go during times of distress and turbulence, and there it was, as it had always been– a wooden bench set under a streetlamp in a park … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged bench, dreaming, John Biscello, park, Poetry, serene loneliness, streetlamp, twilioght
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The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
(Review of Katya Apekina’s stunning debut novel, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish. ) Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty … Continue reading
The Greatest Job on Earth
So much depends upon a red spiral notebook opened to a blank page, beside a pen’s barest volition to longing, within silence’s meted reign.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged devotion, John Biscello, love of writing, poem, Poetry, The Calling, the craft, willkiam carlos williams remixed, word-pray
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This Word’s Life
Words are wonderfully illegitimate and unhurried placeholders for psychic disturbances and vagrant quandaries. To frame it differently– Using a broken compass to navigate through a paper town on a vintage red bicycle is, in itself, immaculate. Words, in other words, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged creative expression, John Biscello, poem, text, the craft, word is bond, words, worlds within words
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The Honeymooners
Ralph Kramden sweats and sweats, his eyeballs bulging. Plagued by the notion that he has become a whale, no a rhinoceros, no an inoculated hippo that shows up to birthday parties uninvited. This visual grotesquerie, reflected to him through the … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged 1950s, jackie gleason, John Biscello, Prose, ralph kramden, sitcom, the honeymooners, tv remixed
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Laura Palmer
There is a rumor that Laura Palmer’s going to be at the dance. While you don’t know her personally, all you can think about is the exquisite mystique of her corpse, and how her live voice, on a tape loop, … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged high school dance, John Biscello, laura palmer, pop culture, the prom, tv remixed, Twin Peaks
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Happy Days
In this episode of Happy Days, Arthur Fonzarelli, Fonzie, The Fonz, slaps Richie, hard, across the face. Void of context, we don’t know why. Richie’s jaw drops. He is in shock. He holds his hand against his crimsoned cheek. Richie … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged american sitcome, happy days, John Biscello, pop culture, Prose, The 50s, tv remixed
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Straight Outta Brooklyn
Urban slice-of-life in this live reading from my novel, No Man’s Brooklyn, at last November’s Prose Month event. NO MAN’S BROOKLYN: From the valentine boneyards of working-class Brooklyn, comes a tale of first love, lost innocence, tragedy, and forgiveness. Daniel Trovato, … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Books, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized, Video
Tagged Brooklyn, John Biscello, New Mexico, New York, no man's brooklyn, novel, performance, prose month, the writing life, video clip
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